Surprisingly, the US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (also known as the FISA Court) actually rejected a petition by the government to retain phone records for longer than five years, as is currently allowed. Continue reading
Monthly Archives: March 2014
Jersey Girl Suing Parents Gets Judge’s Ruling (Video)
Rachel Canning, the New Jersey high school student who sued her parents for support money because she didn’t like their rules, got the judge’s ruling last week. Continue reading
Barbie Turns 55 And Creates More Controversy
Barbie is an American icon, a business phenomenon, and a real doll. Continue reading
National Museum of Industrial History Does Little To Remove The Donches Stench
Photo: Morning Call
The National Museum of Industrial History, under the leadership of Stephen Donches, spent $19 million and 17 years to unveil… a fiasco. Continue reading
Pennsylvania History We Like To Forget – A Militia Massacre Of The Christian Indians
On March 8th, 1782, 160 Pennsylvania militiamen committed the infamous Gnadenhutten Massacre. This PA Militia murdered 96 Christian Indians – 39 children, 29 women and 28 men – by hammering their skulls with mallets from behind as they knelt unarmed, praying and singing, in their Moravian Mission at Gnadenhutten in the Ohio Country. Continue reading
Home Foreclosures Still Happening Years After Home Market Bust
I’m working on a story this weekend about foreclosed homes in this country. In doing some preliminary searching I came across a sad story.
I was reading on the WFMZ.com website about Dan Palchanes, who lost his home to the bank. I also read he bought the home for around $350,000 and the bank sold it at auction for $175,000. Continue reading